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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Toss  \Toss\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tossed}  ;  (less  properly 
  {Tost}  );  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Tossing}.]  [  W.  tosiaw  tosio,  to 
  jerk,  toss  snatch,  tosa  quick  jerk,  a  toss  a  snatch.  ] 
  1.  To  throw  with  the  hand;  especially,  to  throw  with  the  palm 
  of  the  hand  upward,  or  to  throw  upward;  as  to  toss  a 
  ball. 
 
  2.  To  lift  or  throw  up  with  a  sudden  or  violent  motion;  as 
  to  toss  the  head. 
 
  He  tossed  his  arm  aloft,  and  proudly  told  me  He 
  would  not  stay.  --Addison. 
 
  3.  To  cause  to  rise  and  fall;  as  a  ship  tossed  on  the  waves 
  in  a  storm. 
 
  We  being  exceedingly  tossed  with  a  tempeat.  --Act 
  xxvii.  18. 
 
  4.  To  agitate;  to  make  restless. 
 
  Calm  region  once,  And  full  of  peace,  now  tossed  and 
  turbulent.  --Milton. 
 
  5.  Hence  to  try  to  harass. 
 
  Whom  devils  fly,  thus  is  he  tossed  of  men. 
  --Herbert. 
 
  6.  To  keep  in  play;  to  tumble  over  as  to  spend  four  years 
  in  tossing  the  rules  of  grammar.  [Obs.]  --Ascham. 
 
  {To  toss  off},  to  drink  hastily. 
 
  {To  toss  the  cars}.See  under  Oar,  n. 

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